Bitcoin + Ether: An Investor’s Perspective

Aug 27, 2020 at 12:41 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 13:29 UTCView of Grand Tetons near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. (Wikipedia, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Monetary Challenges Aren’t Just Virtual as Fed’s Powell Returns to Jackson HoleMarket MovesAs Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell prepares to speak Thursday at the U.S. central bank’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in…

May 26, 2020 at 15:27 UTCUpdated May 26, 2020 at 16:16 UTCErisX CEO Thomas Chippas said the new block trading API would improve its over-the-counter trading services. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)Crypto derivatives platform ErisX said Tuesday it launched an application programming interface (API) for bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether and litecoin block trading, allowing for bulk trades.…

news There’s another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China. Or maybe it’s one we’ve seen before. Bloggers steeped in the hacker-verse recently exposed a URL spreading a botnet that looks suspiciously like one unleashed by the Outlaw hacking group last year. The Outlaw outfit — a name coined by its discoverers at Trend Micro, who…

The dominance of the U.S. dollar is hard to overstate at the moment. It’s not just that the U.S. economy is on a roll. The U.S. dollar is the preferred choice for international business transactions at a level that’s even larger than the U.S. economic position.This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily

news Bitcoin’s share of the cryptocurrency market hit an 11-week high on Thursday, market data shows. Data from CoinMarketCap reveals that bitcoin’s dominance rate reached 55.38 percent on Dec. 6, which is its highest level recorded since Sept. 20. At press time, that figure is hovering around 55.1 percent.  The dominance rate is a metric…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Bitcoin is clinging on to the $26,000 level as investors await the highly anticipated speech from the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole later this…

For all the noise surrounding cryptocurrency markets, crypto has always offered something fundamental to human progress: an open, democratic financial system. Despite all the meme coins and joke products, there are still many testing the power of crypto to provide the easy access to resources to the world’s 1.4 billion unbanked people.Gane, a freemium mobile…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has teamed with settlement provider Etana Custody to increase the options for users buying digital assets with fiat currencies. Announced Tuesday, Binance users can now fund their accounts with 15 national currencies through the fiat gateway that serves the Europe, Asia, North America and Oceania markets.The 15 funding options include the United…

Apr 19, 2020 at 14:00 UTCBram Cohen. (Credit: Chia)Bram Cohen: ‘Getting Rich Is a Terrible Metric of Success’CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol and CEO of Chia. In this wide-ranging interview, they talk about Cohen’s early interest in “hard problems,” his unexpected ascent from sketchy to celebrity…